What Do Autopsies Performed on the Brains of Deceased Persons

question 108

Multiple Choice

What do autopsies performed on the brains of deceased persons both with and without Alzheimer's disease show regarding amyloid plaques?

• A)They are present only in the brains of people who died of Alzheimer's disease.
• B)Those in patients with Alzheimer's disease are of a different type than those in patients without Alzheimer's.
• C)They accumulate in aging brains over time, regardless of whether symptoms of neurocognitive disorder are apparent, but to a much greater degree in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
• D)They accumulate in aging brains over time, regardless of whether symptoms of neurocognitive disorder are apparent, but are located in different parts of the brain in patients with and without Alzheimer's disease.

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